Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Vignette 11 (twenty-five words*): Overheard at Society Wedding. St George’s, Hanover Square, Mayfair. 1958.

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American pressman: ‘That gal’s just too darn peachy-keen to be real. ’ Guest: ‘Yes, but in her county set, darling, frigidity is considered ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Vignette 10: Twenty-five words.*

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         On Saint Agnes’ Eve                   her bridal veil burst into flames                           when her suitor clasped her hand ...
Sunday, 17 May 2026

The Light that Failed: Counterviews. Polemical Art, Illusion and Disillusion. Blunt versus Solzhenitsyn.

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Anthony Blunt – tarnished knight of the realm, professed communist, and Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures – was unequivocal when a young man ...
Thursday, 26 March 2026

We are asked, ‘What is the matter?’ (Some sixty-something years later can the UK’s 2026 National Year of Reading propose answers?)

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He waited while she closed the front door, then followed her into the sitting-room, the entrance to which was immediately on the right. The ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Floreat amor ♡ Take heart

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 Hold my hand as if you love me, stupid. So where is that pride you have too much of ? No stars lose their shine despite what you did and fl...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

Skin Job. A Self-Narrative Assignment.

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Just last week I was astonished to learn a fiction of mine from my ‘Fugitive Pieces’ file had surfaced at my publishers ( Salt ). Its title?...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

FOUND! Wisdom Spun in Gossamer: Spiderivable Radials

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My young nephew, Ernst Bienek , is torn between his passion for arachnids and his fanatical devotio...